Browsing by Subject "Business Administration, Management."
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Accountability as it influences ethical behavior.
(2001)The Ethical Decision-Making Model with Accountability proposes that various forms of accountability will influence ethical intentions, with moral intensity moderating this relationship. The model also shows that cognitive ... -
Aligning stakeholders' expectations: The roles of IT governance and an organizing vision.
(2007)Key Words: IT Governance, Organizing Vision, Cognition Alignment, IT Coopertive -
An analysis of the satisfaction/dissatisfaction of United States female unionists with their local trade union organizations :
(1980)Findings from this dissertation yield a profile of the CLUW respondents to be older, more experienced, more educated, and more highly paid than the "average" working woman in 1978. CLUW respondents were also found to be ... -
Assessing minority entrepreneurship: An analysis of Black-owned businesses in 274 metropolitan statistical areas.
(2001)The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze the state of Black-owned businesses in the U.S. Specifically, the goal of this project is to describe and explain variation in business success in Blackowned firms located in ... -
Assessing reverse logistics complexity: Conceptual model, scale development, and a case study.
(2007)Paper three represented a case study at one of the biggest computer wholesale distribution companies in the USA. Under conditions of anonymity, the reverse logistics program development and implementation was studied in ... -
The Brain Trust Model: A proposed change to modern change management.
(2006)The study of change management and innovation is a perplexing and challenging undertaking. A review of the literature revealed that change management practices and methodological frameworks are currently insufficient to ... -
Burnout and engagement: Correlates and measurement.
(2003)Burnout has become an important aspect of organizational reality for workers worldwide. Despite a growing body of literature concerning burnout, there are many questions about the measurement and process of burnout that ... -
Capturing strategic orientation toward inpatriation in management staffing policies of global organizations.
(2001)This dissertation examines the judgment of international human resource managers in global organizations entering emerging markets about the appropriateness of inpatriation practice. First, the strategic drivers and the ... -
CRAFTING AN EFFECTIVE STORY: A NARRATIVE THEORY APPROACH TO ENTREPRENEURIAL FUNDRAISING IN CROWDFUNDING
(2017-05-12)The stories told by organizations have long played a critical role in furthering our understanding of organizational culture, the implementation of firm strategies, and the creation of new venture legitimacy. Recently, ... -
Creativity-enhancement in media organizations: A study of the perception of journalists and media managers in Saudi Arabia.
(2003)This dissertation examines creativity enhancement in the context of media organizations in Saudi Arabia. In the empirical component of this study, managers and employees in seven Saudi media organizations were surveyed for ... -
A descriptive study of management in selected nonprofit organizations.
(1982)Finally, the findings indicate support for a number of notions cited in the literature; specifically cited, issues of professionalism, finance, governance, measurement of organizational performance, and personnel. It was ... -
Development of outstanding leadership.
(2004)The differences between the types and content of developmental experiences that a sample of outstanding leaders experienced in early life were examined. Relevant sections of 120 biographies of outstanding leaders in the ... -
Differential effects of leader style and group maturity upon subordinate satisfaction, task effectiveness, and task efficiency.
(1982)This study tested the effects that four different leadership styles had upon groups' satisfaction, effectiveness, and efficiency. Fifty-six groups consisting of four to seven members each completed a subarctic survival ... -
Do sales below cost laws protect small businesses?
(2006)This paper examines whether state laws to prevent below cost sales provide protection for small businesses beyond the protection afforded by the federal antitrust laws. The paper first identifies the theoretical implications ... -
Effective strategies for creative idea evaluation: The customer’s always right
(2020-05-08)Idea evaluation has been identified as a critical step in the creative problem-solving process. Yet, it is unclear how exactly individuals evaluate and compensate for weaknesses in their creative ideas. In the present ... -
The effects of functional fixation on relative performance evaluations.
(1997)The direction of a change in performance measure outcomes (increase versus decrease) and ambiguity (high versus low) were manipulated in a 2 X 2 between-participants experiment. Participants were business students in ... -
Effects of moral intensity and self-evaluation on ethical propensity: A cross-level analysis.
(2004)An empirical study examined the relationships between Jone's (1991) moral intensity and self-evaluation bias with ethical propensity. Results suggested that individuals with a self-enhanced tendency in their own ethical ... -
Effects of venture capital social advice networks on escalation of commitment.
(2006)Characteristics of focal VC firms and the various advice network indices attached to their position in the network were used to predict escalation of commitment in new start-ups where the first round of funding was between ... -
ENTREPRENEURIAL RESOURCE ACQUISITION AT THE INTERSECTION OF SOCIAL INVESTING AND CROWDFUNDING
(2016)Crowdfunding – an open call on an internet platform for money – is becoming an important source of financial capital for entrepreneurs. Compared to traditional sources of financial capital, the phenomenon of crowdfunding ... -
Essays in Corporate Governance and Executive Compensation
(2015-05)This dissertation is a collection of three essays that investigate the issues related to corporate governance and executive compensation. In Chapter 1 I employ a sample of U.S. public firms to investigate the effect of ...